A warehouse converted into luxury rentals along the Williamsburg waterfront may change hands for a whopping$275 million. The current owners of 184 Kent Avenue, which has 338 units from studios to three-bedrooms and was among the first fancy buildings in the area, are reportedly in talks with Jared Kushner, LIVWRK, and Rockpoint (who, incidentally, are on sort of a Brooklyn buying spree). That large sum works out to about $858,000 per apartment, which is a lot of money. [NYP; previously]
The storage facility that caught on fire on the Brooklyn waterfront last week is still smoldering, but already a battle is being waged over the lot's future use. The lot was designated as parkland in the 2005 Williamsburg/Greenpoint waterfront rezoning, but private developers are circling the 11-acre lot like hawks. City Councilman Steve Levin isspearheading a meeting tonight to rally for the lot's future use as parkland. If it goes to developers, the expanse of Bushwick Inlet Park will be nothing but an exercise in urban planning. [Greenpointers;previously; Image via Flickr/Collin Erickson]Cornerspotted: Grand and Graham Avenues in Williamsburg
This week's hint helped guessers put their thinking caps on and namealliterative intersections throughout the city, but it was only first-time commenter Marc Kushner who correctly identified the intersection as the north east corner of Grand and Graham avenues in Williamsburg. The building appears to remain the same, despite some alterations to the facade like moved windows and covered-over storefronts.
· Hint: This Building Stands at an Alliterative Intersection [Curbed]
· Cornerspotter archives [Curbed]
· Hint: This Building Stands at an Alliterative Intersection [Curbed]
· Cornerspotter archives [Curbed]
Somehow Williamsburg Is Getting Even More New Apartments
Because Williamsburg is chock-full of new construction, it's hard to imagine there's room for any more. But then a tipster sent in a photo of the signage that just went up at the corner of North 12th and Berry streets. It took some sleuthing, but Department of Buildings filings reveal that the rendering is of a seven-story, 54-unit building. Said the tipster: "I've lived across the street at 34 Berry since the building opened, and noticed that the empty lot was already a stalled construction site since June 2010." The original permit was actually filed and approved back in 2008, but just renewed at the end of January. So his update makes sense: "In recent weeks, I've walked by the site and noticed that activity has started again. There's also a sign up that says a residential project is in progress and due for completion in July 2016." The design seems to include columns of brick interspersed with casement windows, including some that curve around the corner.
New Condos Will Rise Where a Williamsburg Building Collapsed
In 2010, a brick building on Conselyea Street in Williamsburgcollapsed, injuring workers as they were attempting to add an extra floor and penthouse. Now mysterious developer Conselyea Residence LLC and architect Yossi Melamed are planning a completely new condo building on the site, which is between Union and Lorimer and extremely close to the BQE. Permits show it will have four stories with a total of 3,696 square feet of residential space. Melamed passed alongthe first renderings for a revived 34 Conselyea, and they're definitely modern. The first floor will house a duplex with a rec room and a two-tier yard, while the second and third floors will have 2BR/2BAapartments with rear balconies. The top-floor unit will have a rear terrace and higher ceiling heights.
First Look Inside Chetrit's New Williamsburg Hotel Project
It's been well over a year since any news has come out of the giant hole in the ground on Metropolitan Avenue near the Lorimer stop on Union Avenue, but a little sleuthing has turned back a bunch of really good-looking, uber-hip, unseen renderings for a hotel and residential building that just may be coming to the long-dormant site at 500 Metropolitan Avenue. Discovered on Raad Studio's website, the renderings depict a modern behemoth of a building, presumably designed by architect of record Kutnicki Bernstein. Permits for the site, which were renewed as recently as January 14, say that the building will house a hotel, apartments and retail space.
Here's an amenity we've never seen before: a free trip to Europe. The Oosten recently announced that buyers who purchase a penthouse, loft, or townhouse in the Williamsburg building will be given an all-expenses-paid trip to Amsterdam to sit down with the building's designer, Piet Boon. StreetEasy shows six qualifying units, ranging in price from $3.3M to $6.5M. [BU; previously]The Hunt Nears Self-Parody as Couple Buys in Williamsburg
Welcome to It Happened One Weekend, our weekly roundup of The New York Times real estate section...
Every "The Hunt" column begins with the Hunters describing the apartment they want, and ends with them rationalizing whatever they came away with. This is The Hunt: Dreams vs. Reality.
The Hunters: a couple looking to buy
Price
Dream: $1.5 million
Reality: $1.465 million
Price
Dream: $1.5 million
Reality: $1.465 million
Neighborhood
Dream: Williamsburg
Reality: Williamsburg
Dream: Williamsburg
Reality: Williamsburg
Amenities
Dream: 2BR, open kitchen, outdoor space
Reality: 1BR, open kitchen, outdoor space, high ceilings
Dream: 2BR, open kitchen, outdoor space
Reality: 1BR, open kitchen, outdoor space, high ceilings
Summary
Literally everything about this week's Hunt is insufferable, which includes a pair of wealthy white people blogging, inheriting money, and saying things like "I was not going to move to Brooklyn. Brooklyn is not New York; it is so far away from everything." Our heroes, Elise Porter and Jose Moran Moya, are either the worst people ever or a brilliant satire of life in contemporary New York City.
Literally everything about this week's Hunt is insufferable, which includes a pair of wealthy white people blogging, inheriting money, and saying things like "I was not going to move to Brooklyn. Brooklyn is not New York; it is so far away from everything." Our heroes, Elise Porter and Jose Moran Moya, are either the worst people ever or a brilliant satire of life in contemporary New York City.
Basically, these clowns decided to "get out of the city" by moving to Williamsburg, after realizing that paying $3,600/month for a cramped studio apartment near Union Square was kind of a ripoff, despite the neighborhood's so-called "artistic vibe." So, after inheriting a chunk of change, the two set off to look for condos priced around $1.5 million in the unforgiving wilds of North Brooklyn.
Five days after it started, the fire that broke out at a Williamsburg document-storage warehouse is finally under control. Suspicious activity isn't really on the table as a cause anymore, and the overall damage is less than investigators initially thought. While surreal ice ruin photos captivated the city's attention, Mayor Bill de Blasio paid the site a visit yesterday. Though neighbors had been asked to keep windows closed because of air quality, the Department of Health gave the all-clear.[DNA/NYT/Gothamist/BDE/B+B; previously]
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Oosten Penthouse Listed; Greystone Invests in Village Project
WILLIAMSBURG—The first of the four penthouses in The Oosten to hit the market is PH3, a 5,000-square-foot duplex with 1,500 square feet of outdoor space that just hit the market for $6.49 million. It comes with a jacuzzi, a private parking garage, and an expenses-paid trip to Amsterdam for a personal consultation with the development's Dutch designer Piet Boon. [Halstead; previously]
WEST VILLAGE—Developer Greystone announced today that it had acquired a major stake in condo project 130 Seventh Avenue South, which it will codevelop with Continental Ventures and Itzhaki Acquisitions. The building, which made it past the Landmarks Commission after a couple misfires, will feature full-floor condos around 2,500 square feet in size. [CurbedWire Inbox; previously]
The Williamsburg waterfront property where a CitiStorage warehouse went up in flames this weekend (and is still smoldering) was designated a decade ago as future parkland, and locals hope that the tragic fire may lead to something positive for the park. But the city has yet to buy the land from warehouse owner Norm Brodsky, and there is no plan in place to do so, which makes neighbors worry that someone else may snap it up first. [DNAinfo; previously; photo via Several seconds/Curbed Flickr pool]New Condos Sound Like a Williamsburg-Flavored Fruit Spread
Million Dollar Listing star Fredrik Eklund took to his Instagram pagetoday to announce the launching of the teaser site for 338 Berry Street, a condo conversion in Williamsburg that will henceforth be known as...oh man...Williamsberry. In a borough where more and more buildings are giving themsleves really silly names, Williamsberry might take the cake, and then cover that cake with Williamsberry-flavored icing because Williamsberry sounds like a kind of jam. Or a Froyo store. Or a butler from an Edwardian novel. Williamsberry, fetch the silver! The Duke approaches!
According to recent permits, which developer Mona Gora (a.k.a. Very Berry, LLC) was finally able to file after getting rid of those pesky existing tenants, the seven-story former noodle factory will be enlarged by one floor and will contain 54 units, which Eklund reveals will be priced from $575,000 to $3.5 million and up for the three penthouses. From the rendering it looks like the rumored solar panelsare still in play.
· Williamsberry [official]
· 338 Berry Street coverage [Curbed]
· Williamsberry [official]
· 338 Berry Street coverage [Curbed]
Apple is planning to open its first Queens store in 2015. It'll be on the second floor of Elmhurst's Queens Center Mall; it's projected to be "the largest Apple retail outlet located in a New York mall to date, and Apple is expecting revenues for this store to even beat out some of its flagship counterparts." Chinese tourists in Flushing FTW, right? Also keep an eye out for Williamsburg and Upper East Side locations to open this year or, at the latest, in early 2016. [9to5mac via NYDN; previously]
A warehouse along the Williamsburg waterfront is still burningafter catching fire on Saturday, and 70 firefighters were still on the snowy scene trying to completely douse it today. It housed a document storage company's operations, and efforts to contain the blaze have resulted in shreds of personal files scattered around the neighborhood. The seven-alarm fire also called for fireboats, the nasty weather means everything'sfrozen solid, and the smoldering could continue for weeks. [DNA/NYT/Untapped/NYT]Brooklyn's '90s Waterfront Was Smorgasburg's Polar Opposite
What a difference two decades make. A video uploaded to YouTube this week by photographer Roland Andrijauskas (h/t Free Williamsburg) displays videos of the Williamsburg and Greenpoint waterfront from the ancient days of 1992. Missing are the hordes of hipsters andbabied couples, but bountiful are the factories and spray paint. The video even focuses in on Greenpoint's Huxley Envelope Building, whichmet its fate just this week.
· Here's what the Greenpoint/Williamsburg waterfront looked like in 1992 [FW]
· All Huxley Envelope Building coverage [Curbed]
· Here's what the Greenpoint/Williamsburg waterfront looked like in 1992 [FW]
· All Huxley Envelope Building coverage [Curbed]
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